Hawkhurst: Murder, Corruption and Britain's Most Notorious Smuggling Gang

First edition, first impression.  214pp.  Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers.  8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. The story of the notorious smuggling gang which operated throughout South East England in the mid 18th century.  The gang's dominance through terror extended from Hawkhurst, Kent - the village where the gang was started, at the Oak and Ivy Inn - all along the south coast, where they famously and successfully raided the Custom House in Poole.  After they were defeated in a confrontation with the Gouldhurst Militia in 1714, two of the gang's leaders,  Thomas Kingsmill and Arthur Gray, were executed.